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Thanks for all your help of this guys. Took the skirting off, got rid of a lot of crud and filled with expanding foam. (Note to self - it really does expand). Of course - it was only when we assembled them and pushed them into my new gap that we realised the wall wasn’t flat. So although...

Thanks for all your suggestions. I hadn’t considered expanding foam. Will certainly help give a neater appearance. PAX don’t come with L brackets - they have a keyhole type thing through the back of the wardrobe. But I don‘t think that would work anyway as we have the extra tall ones and we...

Morning all Getting some PAX wardrobes delivered today. I took a section of skirting board off last night expecting to see plaster all the way to the floor. But no - the plaster stopped just below the top edge of the skirting board and then went to bare brick - this was once an outside wall...

Thank you - didn’t realise such stuff existed.

We had a new tarmac drive laid last year. A few weeks back we had a skip on it while getting some work done in the house. The skip left a lot of muck behind so decided to blast it away with the pressure washer…using the high pressure wand and also blasted other dirty parts of the drive. But...

Foxhole - you're a star - thank you. Will mention the fool thing. I didn't think about the extra gap left/right of the new cupboard. Wife won't be happy - took weeks for DIY Kitchens just to deliver a single cupboard! :-)

Hi all We've recently removed an integrated washing machine from the kitchen as we're now using a free-standing one in a utility room. We've ordered a cupboard to fill the gap from DIY Kitchens from where we got the original kitchen. The attached photo shows two things: The gap where the...

It’s purely cosmetic. Just like the look of vertical drops down rather than horizontal between sockets. Having said that, even if there was a single drop down to bench level there would have to be a junction box or a doubling up of cable as the sockets would be on two adjoining walls but the...

Thanks guys. Our electrician is a relation but he’s getting on a bit and not in best of health so was hoping I could do some of the donkey work.

Hi all. We had a small outside yard between the house and garage which has now been covered . It will be used as a utility type area so will be arranging for some mains sockets to be installed. The idea is metal or metal looking conduit attached to the brick wall. If the electrician wires...

Thanks for your replies guys - for some reason I didn’t get a notification that this had been replied to. An update on this. Normally all the Tado valves and hall stat are set to Frost Protection at night which basically switches everything off. But last night I set the hall stat (controlling...

Struggling where to start with this one.... We have a Baxi Duotec Combi boiler. All radiators with the exception of the hall and towel rail have TADO valves on. The hall has a normal TRV (fully open) and the towel rail doesn't have any TRV. Heat for these two is called for by the hall...

Thank you.

Hi all I’m thinking of buying this pull up bar. I don’t really want one that attaches to a door frame. This will be fitted to a brick wall. Just wondering what would be the safest fixings to support 78kg of me bobbing up and down ? Thanks.

Thank you. Sorry, yes, should have clarified, the light is being replaced.

Hi all Our outside light with integrate PIR is past its best and doesn’t really function how we want it to. it’s connected via an external Wiska box to a switch inside the house. What I’d like to do is have a light come on when either one of two separate PIRs is triggered, one located at each...

Sorry - forgot to say thanks for this. Works a great

We too had crappy insulation. I think at some point there must have been a trend of putting polystyrene between joists! Pulled up what little there was and replaced with 100mm between 400mm joists then 170mm crossways. It’s messy but straightforward. Then got some of those plastic stilt...

Actually, when I look at these original photos, I can’t quite work something out. Why is there a wire between the Com terminals in the mirror and the light? I thought, for each of these threee devices there would be a live wire coming into Com, then a switched live from L1 going to each...

Yes understood thanks. I was referring to the Com on the light switch which has two wires already. I think your initial post was to link fan Com to light Com thus making three wires in there.